James Monroe: “He admits that the other objections are essentially removed and will not in themselves prevent the ratification…”

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.